DePaul announced Friday morning that longtime head women’s basketball coach Doug Bruno is stepping down after 39 years leading the Blue Demons. He leaves his post with 786 wins, which is 11th-most all-time among all Division I women’s basketball coaches.
Bruno, 74, coached DePaul briefly in the mid-1970s before leaving to coach the Chicago Hustle in the short-lived Women’s Professional Basketball League. After the league dissolved, Bruno was an assistant for the Loyola Chicago men for several seasons before returning to DePaul in 1988 where he remained in that post through this season.
During his nearly four-decade tenure leading the Blue Demons, DePaul became a mid-major powerhouse and a
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